AT first, we were both so busy accumulating KinzCash that every time we did our daily mining, we sold the gems we found back to Arte in the Curio Shop.
But after awhile (and with the addition of KinzCash added via cards, not to mention James' W25,000 win on the Wheel of WOW), we both decided to accumulate the thirty gems needed for something called "a Crown of Wonder."
Each day you are allowed to go into one of the mines—Muzzle Mouth, Barking Mad, Flea Floater, Howling Horse, and Buried Bones—to have three chances at chipping away at a likely-looking rock, hoping a gem lurks underneath. More often than not, you find slag, but if you are lucky, a glint of color appears. I hunted around for some hints, but only read that you should not tap on the rocks that glint and then glint again immediately; rocks that glint and then do not glint again for some seconds are more likely to have a gem behind them. For the most part, that seems to work, although I am already in repeats with found gems.
Once you find the gem, you can keep it or sell it to Arte. Prices depend on how rare the gem is, how many of them Arte supposedly has, and, sometimes, totally on Arte's whim. We got a big laugh one day when James came up with a red gem and Arte exclaimed, "Oh, no, not another one!" and offered him W5 for it!
Romancing the Crown
